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large sums of money in site formation, rock blasting, and in levelling and turfing it so as to render it suitable for a playing field. The Association has been in occupation of the site since December 1927 and is maintaining the ground in a manner reflecting credit on its management.
(b) We need hardly enlarge on the fact that the Chinese, in proportion to the number of the Colony's population and also of their proportionate con- tribution to the revenue of the Colony by way of rates and taxes, are inadequately provided for in the matter of public recreation grounds. The Playing Fields Committee recognise the cramped area within which the Chinese Recreation Club is confined in its allotment in Queen's Recreation ground at Causeway Bay. Apart from that allotment and another small allotment inside the Race Course in Hong Kong, and two allotments in Kowloon, the Chinese, who are taking very extensively to open-air games and outdoor sports, do not enjoy the facilities comparable to the other sections of the community That Caroline Hill partially, though inade- quately, supplies the want which had been felt very keenly there can be no denying, and the S.C.A.A.'s deprivation of the Caroline Hill allotment would be a serious hardship on the 4,000 odd members who at present make up that Association, and whose numbers are constantly on the in-
crease.
5. Apart from our disagreement on the specific suggestion for alienation of Caro- line Hill, for the reasons detailed in this Reservation we concur in the general views and recommendations embodied in the Report.
DATED this 21st day of January, One thousand nine hundred and thirty.
J. P. BRAGA.
M. K. LO.
Reservation by Commander F. H D. Byron, R.N., and Captain C.A. de Linde, R.E.
We do not concur in the proposal for the sale of Caroline Hill for the purpose of developing the Aberdeen area.
F. H. D. BYRON.
C. A. de LINDE.
Hong Kong, January 1930.
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